Son asked to watch Threads, the 1984 drama about a nuclear war focussing on Sheffield. I'm not the better for it after 2 hours of traumatising, breath-stopping tv.  It holds up really well in the main despite being 40 years old. I don't think it affected me as much as a 17 year old (when nuclear war was considered a real possibility) as it did today

Enjoyed that! Shame it only took 30 seconds!

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4 games to go and still all to olay for.

Can Brighton do to City what Everton did to Liverpool? Season kind of hinges on City not getting 3 points tomorrow and again when they play Spurs.

Arsenal have 2 tough away matches at Spurs and Man U.  We need to win both of those as well as both home fixtures. 2 points dropped in either WHL or old Trafford might not be fatal but any more will be for sure

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Quote from: Fishy on April 23, 2024, 01:43:50 PMVoyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68881369

"the issue was resolved by shifting the affected code to different locations in the memory of the probe's computers"

Amazing to think of people moving code around in the RAM of a computer system that's 15 billion miles away and hasn't been physically touched for 46 years, by using a very slow and weak radio link.

I started to try to imagine one billion miles as an understandable concept. I fully understand the number and what it signifies, but one thousand million miles is staggeringly difficult to absorb. Times that by fifteen and it becomes a pointless exercise of Brian energy, and to think that in cosmological terms it's not even that far away.

It's actually pretty close, despite the fact that it takes the light of the sun nearly a day to get there. If you were perched atop it with a paperback in one hand, you could probably read it by sunlight, just about. A bit like moonlight I think.

Is it using that solar power to get the on board computers, transmitters etc to work?

Edit - Google was able to answer that pretty definitively...

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fact-sheet/

QuoteThe Voyagers travel too far from the Sun to use solar panels; instead, they were equipped with power sources called radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). These devices, used on other deep space missions, convert the heat produced from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity to power the spacecraft instruments, computers, radio and other systems.

Recurrent theme...

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Delighted with how well Bardet performed.  Hopefully he'll have a decent season; could well be his last

VAR is supposed to reduce human error.  In fact it has put additional humans into the chain thereby increasing human error!

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Wicked Little Letters, funny but was expecting more. Jessie Buckley was excellent though

Got into alternate hell and had to choose between 2 words for my last guess. Luckily I chose the right one.

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She's been doing well recently, seems to be over her battle with injury